The new Ubuntu 14.04 Unity desktop. Some cool new features.

The new Ubuntu 14.04 Unity desktop has some cool features. The icons on the sidebar launcher may be re-sized to 16 pixels in size. This allows the launcher bar to take up even less space. And the new 3.13 kernel includes many enhancements over the old 3.12 release. Firefox 25.0 is the standard browser for … Read more

How to use ipgrab to capture TCP packets that are travelling through a network interface.

How to use ipgrab to capture TCP packets. The ipgrab command when run as root is very useful for capturing information about network packets that are traveling through your network interfaces. In this example I am capturing packets from my wlan0 interface. ubuntu ~ $ sudo ipgrab -i eth0 > capture.log ipgrab 0.9.10 Listening on … Read more